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Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it. If I were strictly trying to understand how Google, for example, sees my IP address, do they see it as a Canadian IP address even though it "Resolves" to Dallas, TX?

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Hi Ollan, Thanks,  I guess I had a round about way of asking my question and you confirmed what I thought.  I am using the canonical tag on these pages: http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=1 http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=21 http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=31 http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=41 Thanks again, Jake

Hi Jake, Thanks for the question. First off, I highly recommend reading this article by Dr. Pete: How Many Links are Too Many? (he get's asked this question a lot!) Short answer: over 100 links isn't necessarily bad. If you're consolidating those links via rel=canonical Google is likely doing this in their crawl, and therefor reducing the crawling of every single URL in order to save bandwidth. If those pages rel canonical to each other, you may not have a problem. I would recommend checking your parameter settings in Google Webmaster Tools, just to be safe. That said, I've often found that reducing the number of links on a page often improves user experience. There's a certain psychology around limiting choices that makes decisions easier for users. I'm not saying this is right for your situation, but it's always best to question your assumptions. Cheers.

It would only be bad if the home page and category page are almost identical.  If the page products are 90% identical to both the home and category page, then yes this is duplicate.  But if you just have a few scattered products on the home page that happen to be somewhere else, you should be fine.  All ecommerce stores deal with a similar situation as you, I think if Google were to ban sites that display a product on different pages nobody would rank.  Just make sure that each page has enough unique products on it.